[HELP] What's the deal with this thing anyway?

Okay, so there's been a lot of talk about it ever since the first scanned magazine preview photos showed up. The speculation began. How much? How tall? How heavy? Then there were the shots of it at the trade show. Everyone started salivating. It looked better than we could have imagined. Yet something was slightly amiss with the design. Then more unbelievable news - another company announced they were making the same thing in a slightly different scale. Holy shit!

Well, now the damn thing is out. And the reviews are all over the place. I've read all the English language reviews I could find, a handful of Japanese ones, and even an Italian one. There's no consensus. Some people love it. Some people hate it. But the pictures all look great and it's killing me.

So I started this thread to get some feedback before I commit my hard stolen cash. I don't want to know your opinion on it. I've already read dozens. Don't tell me about its pros, cons, broken parts, speculate on the inevitable repaints, or let me know that you do/don't want to buy one as well. I don't care about that shit. All I want is an answer to this one simple question:

No. In fact, you shouldn't buy anything you cant decide for yourself on. It might be better for you and everyone else if you just never bought anything again. Ever. Find a hole in the forest somewhere or hop onto a boxcar, whatever. Just disappear from society, grow a nice thick beard and spend the rest of your days 'waiting for it'.

Well, it depends on if you like your toy to be accurate to the show. I think too much was sacrificed, or the designer just didn't 'get' what was going on, because this thing is just not that good looking.

I guess if you have the money and you're a completest, you'd better get it. But buy it because you WANT it, not as an investment. Yahoo.JP auctions are gonna be FLOODED with this damn thing for years to come.

Looks like your dilemmas about to get worse man, a new company that was until just last month only making pvc figures of schoolgirls and their pantie collections is now having a crack at it! No idea what to expect from them and it'll probably cost even more. :(

Funny, I recently applied Gcrush's technique to emails from relatives. My proposition was that we could all save a whack of time by just replying to the same email, as their content is quite repetitive and therefore predictable. Oddly, no one but me saw the wisdom in this.

Gcrush, dude, don't get so bent out of shape. I was just in Akihabara yesterday, and they still have loads of those things by the checkout counter at the Woolworth's. I think I saw some in the Nakano Walgreen's too.

I was really excited when I heard they were making a live action movie because I always loved the design. But now that the movie is out, I'm crushed. It sucks. WAY TO RUIN MY FUCKING CHILDHOOD, HOLLYWOOD.